whois privacy
As a website owner, I urge ICANN to keep whois privacy protections in place. There are many, many real harms that can come to website owners through the removal of such protections. Where there is alleged wrong-doing, the courts in most countries have in place policies to properly balance privacy with revealing the contact information (in the U.S., via court order or warrant). There is no need, either to support legitimate copyright complaints or investigations into criminal activities, to require domain name registries to turn over or publicly post such information in the absence of such orders or warrants. If there are countries that lack these mechanisms, then the proper solution is to work to put these approaches into place in those countries, not to impose harm on all of the legitimate website owners. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Attachment:
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